Thermopylae - Boston, MA - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The plaque accompanying this work reads:

"'THERMOPYLAE'

DMITRI HADZI, SCULPTOR

'THERMOPYLAE' WHICH IS A 16-FOOT HIGH , 2 1/2 TON BRONZE SCULPTURE WAS INSPIRED BY 'PROFILES IN COURAGE' AND THE BRILLIANT WAR RECORD OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.
IT IS NAMED AFTER THE GREEK BATTLE WHERE THE SPARTANS, IN A DISPLAY OF GREAT COURAGE FOUGHT THE PERSIANS TO THE LAST MAN.
THOROUGHLY SYMBOLIC IN ITS ABSTRACT SHAPES, BASICALLY ORGANIC IN FORM, THE HEAVY FORMS CONTRAST WITH THIN, SOLID WITH OPEN, VERTICAL WITH HORIZONTAL, AND ROUND WITH ANGULAR, THROUGH THE EFFECT OF THE SUN, RAIN AND SNOW ON THE SCULPTURE, THE VIEWER IS PROVIDED WITH EVERCHANGING VISUAL AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES."

To the poster of this Waymark, the work resembles one man standing upright and struggling to carry another...perhaps dead, man over his shoulder.

The work is listed on the Smithsonian Inventory at (visit link)

Title: Thermopylae Artist: DMITRI HADZI Media (materials) used: Sculpture: bronze; Base: marble. Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): in front of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building in Boston. Date of creation or placement: 1966

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